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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry ...more

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Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

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But of all the things which I have mentioned that which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form...more

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Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

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For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in...more

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All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemi...more